Unable to sleep, Yu Sheng tossed and turned in bed.
Even without Ailin's antics next to him, sleep still evaded him.
The excitement from experiencing a foreign exploration for the first time stirred his thoughts, and all the information he'd encountered recently flooded his mind at once.
After struggling to sleep for a couple of hours, he finally got up, casually wrapped a coat over his pajamas, and quietly prepared to leave his bedroom.
As he opened the bedroom door, his small doll companion shot up straight in bed, eyes still closed, and asked, "Going out? Where to?"
Yu Sheng was taken aback.
Just as he was about to respond, he saw Ailin tumble back down, mumbling, "Don't forget your helmet when going to buy money. You've stuffed yourself with that silly fox and haven’t taken me to play games..."
What a chaotic jumble of sleep talk! Wasn't she a doll that didn’t need to sleep, yet here she was, deep in slumber and even dreaming?
A strange urge to laugh bubbled in Yu Sheng’s heart, but seeing that Ailin had not truly woken up, he quietly pushed the door closed again and stepped into the hallway.
The sun had yet to rise, and the outside world was still draped in darkness, the calm before dawn embracing the stillness of the moment.